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blady grass

British  
/ ˈbleɪdɪ /

noun

  1. a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Beyond the entanglement of the beach scrub the way was open, though rough, with granite boulders half hidden among rampant blady grass.

From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

The hapless fly is impaled with an inch or two of the flowering spike of blady grass to which a portion of the white inflorescence adheres, and is released.

From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

It was situated in a natural, symmetrical clearing, a circus hemmed in by sullen vegetation, and upon which no plant save blady grass ever invaded.

From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

A few handfuls of blady grass supply a sheaf of missiles, and with such cheap ammunition the sportsman is justified in providing himself profusely when intent upon the destruction of shy birds.

From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

The sound again—merely the mellow cadences of a swamp pheasant whooping among the blady grass.

From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

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